Department For Education
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These standards should be used as guidelines to support your school or college use the right digital infrastructure and technology. More digital and technology categories will be added to the service.
Meeting them can help you make more informed decisions about technology leading to safer, more cost-efficient practices and new learning opportunities for students.
The standards are to be used by everyone involved in the planning and use of technology within schools and colleges, including:
- senior leadership teams
- IT staff
- suppliers
- technical advisers
- teachers
The standards can help your school or college with:
- budgeting for technology procurement and maintenance
- buying technology equipment and services
- renewing a contract with a technology provider to ensure their purchases meet your needs
- correctly installing new equipment
You should:
Read each technology category and its standards.
Review the standards and see if your school or college meets them.
Speak with your ICT supplier or in-house support team to find out what can be done if youre not currently meeting the standards.
If you need to buy new technology to meet the standards, you can get help buying for your school.
Our plan technology for your school service will help you to meet these standards.
Contents
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Find out what standards your school or college should meet on connection type, connection speed, resilience and safeguarding.
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Find out what standards your school or college should meet when using or moving to cloud solutions, including managing access, availability, data protection and backup.
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Find out what standards your school or college should meet on cyber security and user accounts.
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Find out what standards your school or college should meet on digital accessibility.
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Find out what standards your school or college should meet on digital leadership and governance.
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Find out what standards your school or college should meet on filtering and monitoring.
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Find out what standards your school or college should meet on laptops, desktops and tablets.
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Find out what standards your school or college should meet on copper cabling, optical fibre cabling and installation.
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Find out what standards your school or college should meet on switch performance, management, security and resilience.
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Find out what standards your school or college should meet on servers and storage, including security, energy efficiency and suitable environments.
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Find out what standards your school or college should meet on wireless network performance, coverage, management and security.